Sunday, September 14
Justice
TV on the Radio
Band of Horses
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
CSS
The Avett Brothers
Tokyo Police Club
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
Akron/Family
The Bronx
Tilly and the Wall
The Heavy
The Cribs
The Ting Tings
Airborne Toxic Event
Bright Channel
Chester French
Grampall Jookabox
The Rosewood Thieves
Hearts of Palm
The Giraffes
The Elms

The fest takes place September 13 and 14, with weekend passes going for $110 and day passes going for $59.50. They go on sale May 2nd at MonolithFestival.com.

After 10 years of making music as The Blood Brothers, we have made the collective decision that our time together has come to an end. We feel extremely fortunate to have spent such a deeply memorable and amazing part of our lives with each other. At this point, however, we feel it's best that our futures move forward on separate paths. We'd like to express our sincerest thanks and gratitude to all the bands we've played with, individuals who have helped us make our records, and fans who have come to our shows and picked up our music throughout the years. Your friendship, support and love hold such a profoundly special place in each of our hearts. We hope that the memories you attach to our music are as fond as those you have given us. Thank you and take care, we'll miss all of you.

Our cartoon puppet-ish pals Gorillaz are releasing their "D-Sides" from Demon Days on November 20th. Besides several b-sides such as "Bill Murray" and remixes like DFA, Soulwax and Junior Sanchez's sexy rework of DARE, the two disc set also features previously unreleased tracks and demos.

This weekend is the first ever Broad Ripple Fall Music Festival, taking place at 20 venues on the North side of Indianapolis. We're featuring over one hundred bands and DJs, as well as collecting money for multiple local nonprofit organizations.

This is the first time we've ever been apart of curating an event so large as this, so we hope you make the time to check it out! It happens all day long at bars, record stores, coffee shops and even a hostel. The cover will vary by venue, with many being free and most being $6 or under. After you pay your first cover you'll get a stamp to save $3 at the next venue! How sweet is that?

Today Radiohead announced the pre-release of their new album, "In Rainbows", which is available only on their website, www.radiohead.com or www.inrainbows.com. Unfortunately, the site does nothing but allow us to enter.

Why do you play with my emotions guys? I just want a limited discbox set of your new record.

Apparently all tracks will be available for download for a price that the purchaser chooses. Should $0 be chosen, a small fee will be charged. This is a pretty innovative way to price your product - make it up to the purchaser. The downloads will be available on October 10.

Track listing:

15 STEP
BODYSNATCHERS
NUDE
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
ALL I NEED
FAUST ARP
RECKONER
HOUSE OF CARDS
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
VIDEOTAPE

The extra songs on the bonus CD from the Discbox are:

MK1
DOWN IS THE NEW UP
GO SLOWLY
MK2
LAST FLOWERS
UP ON THE LADDER
BANGERS AND MASH
4 MINUTE WARNING

I started off Saturday a little slow, but probably for good reason. the 2nd to last day of the festival is usually a full one.

I missed Regina Spektor, which is a bummmer, but did make it to portions of Fountains of Wayne and The Hold Steady. The Hold Steady played a great set -- even better than their stellar performance I saw last year at Pitchfork's music festival. After plenty of beer and swigs of liquor, Craig Finn couldn't proclaim enough how happy he was to end the tour at Bonnaroo and loved the crowd. He even threw us some cigarettes at the end - such a sweet gesture.

The next block of time was loaded with awesome bands -- Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Franz Ferdinand, Ween, Spoon, Keller Williams. I started out at Harper's main stage set and was glad to finally see him perform, after missing his apparently short set the evening before alongside John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame) and Ahmir Thompson of the Roots for Bonnaroo's signature Superjam performance.

I also made it to Franz Ferdinand for a while, and caught the end of Ween.

Ween is a pretty humorous band if you ask me. I must mention though that Franz Ferdinand and Fountains of Wayne simply do not fit the vibe of Bonnaroo.

With an hour to kill, my buddies and I roamed shakedown street after walking and filling our lungs with cow pasture dust. We followed the herd back in to Centeroo and got back to the What Stage just in time for The Police. For Police fans, it was a great moment to see them performing live once again. However, I couldn't help but feel like the set had no climax. The Police' groove was simply not very powerful to my ears and mostly just reminded me of what pop used to sound like.

I went back to the tent to grab my flashy light toys and got back to the Which Stage just in time to see Wayne and his spaceship. The Lips' set was as expected -- lots of balloons, lots of confetti, and members of the audience were given laser pointers to shine onto the stage, and were even asked by Wayne to shine the lights on his face.

The end of the set consisted of a lot of political talk. It is no secret that Wayne is no fan of George W. Bush and made a point to tell people how important it is for us all to unite and do something if we want change.

After the uplifting and motivating Lips' show, I rolled on down to Girl Talk, the king of laptop sampling performance. He managed to keep his clothes on and dropped some sick house and hip-hop beats, sampling songs like and closed out his set by singing a cover of Nirvana's Scentless Apprentice.

I ended the evening with Sasha & Digweed before roaming back to the tent and passing out with my contacts in.

Today is the last day -- I definitely plan on seeing Pete Yorn, Wolfmother, Wilco, Feist, Martha Wainwright, Feist, and ending my Bonnaroo 2007 experience with The White Stripes.

Last night I ran into friends and bounced around stages. We caught the Black Angels, Mute Math, The National, and some of Tea Leaf Green.

I've seen the National before, and they were as good as I expected... but let me tell you, every band sounds 10x better on the This, That and Other stages at Bonnaroo.

What really blew me away though was Mute Math with their electro-induced, upbeat jam style. Every song promised new elements, such as stand up bass or keytar. Their upbeat, hard drumming is some of the best I've seen ... the drummer really kicks out the jams. Hard drumming at a fast BPM. One song was basically a drum solo featuring the whole band. I can't say enough... except that thus far in my 3 years of Bonnaroo, they may very well be my favorite act.

After the long road here, some good music and fun times, I was ready to pass out around 1am.

Today I'm planning to catch Cold War Kids, Hot Cip, Tool, Aesop Rock and DJ Shadow for sure. If I can, I'll stop in on The Roots, The Black Keys, Tortoise, Brazilian Girls, String Cheese Incident, STS9 and the Super Jam w/ Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones, Ben Harper on guitar and Ahmir Thompson of The Roots on drums.

Well, here's update #1 from Manchester, Tennessee, the site of Bonnaroo.

After leaving Indianapolis around midnight last night, we parked and slept at the hotel where will call is located. Fortunately we got in there a little before they opened, which was set for 10am, although we mistakenly got in the wrong line at first and had to go to the proper one, which was much shorter but also way slower.

After much waiting around, we were pumped to get to Bonnaroo and set up camp. We tried to get a spot with shade, but were asked to move... Woops! Guess that's not allowed.

After a very short nap, we're checking out the press trailer and circling our favorite bands. I know I'd like to see Mute Math and The National for sure.

I hear we might get thunderstorms here tonight, but I'm kinda doubting that.